Are You Gonna Be There?

Get Down, and Do The Do

"We gonna get down. We gonna do the do. I'm going to hit these motherfuckers."

-Dock Ellis, in a clubhouse speech to his teammates before a 1974 game against the Cincinnati Reds in which he plunked the first three batters he faced (Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and Dan Driessen, for those of you keeping score at home).

Harvey Scales & the 7 Sounds - Get Down

Howlin' Wolf - Do The Do

Quotation taken from Dan Epstein's essential new baseball tome Big Hair and Plastic Grass .